Romanization of Belarusian

Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet.

Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian

Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian include:

BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use), which is the US and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical information
British Standard 2979 : 1958
Scientific transliteration, or the International Scholarly System for linguistics
ALA-LC romanization, 1997 (American Library Association and Library of Congress)
ISO 9:1995, which is also Belarusian state standard GOST 7.79–2000 for non-geographical information
Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script, which is Belarusian state standard for geographical information, adopted by State Committee on land resources, geodetics and cartography of Belarus, 2000 and recommended^[1] for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). It was significantly revised in 2007.

Comparative table of some standard romanisations of the Belarusian letters
Cyrillic	Scholarly^[2]	ALA-LC	British^[3]	BGN/PCGN^[4]	ISO 9	National 2000^[5]	National 2007^[5]
А а	a	a	a	a	a	a	a
Б б	b	b	b	b	b	b	b
В в	v	v	v	v	v	v	v
Г г	h	h	h	h	g	h	h
Д д	d	d	d	d	d	d	d
Е е	e	e	e	ye	e	je, ie	je, ie
Ё ё	ë	i͡o	ë	yo	ë	jo, io	jo, io
Ж ж	ž	z͡h	zh	zh	ž	ž	ž
З з	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
І і	i	i	i	i	ì	i	i
Й й	j	ĭ	ĭ	y	j	j	j
К к	k	k	k	k	k	k	k
Л л	l	l	l	l	l	l	l
М м	m	m	m	m	m	m	m
Н н	n	n	n	n	n	n	n
О о	o	o	o	o	o	o	o
П п	p	p	p	p	p	p	p
Р р	r	r	r	r	r	r	r
С с	s	s	s	s	s	s	s
Т т	t	t	t	t	t	t	t
Тс тс			t-s	t·s
У у	u	u	u	u	u	u	u
Ў ў	ŭ (w)	ŭ	w	w	ǔ	ú	ŭ
Ф ф	f	f	f	f	f	f	f
Х х	x (ch)	kh	kh	kh	h	ch	ch
Ц ц	c	ts	ts	ts	c	c	c
Ч ч	č	ch	ch	ch	č	č	č
Ш ш	š	sh	sh	sh	š	š	š
ʼ	-	-	ˮ, "	ʺ	ʼ	-	-
Ы ы	y	y	ȳ	y	y	y	y
Ь ь	ʹ	ʹ	ʼ, '	ʹ	ʹ	ʹ	combining acute
Э э	è	ė	é	e	è	e	e
Ю ю	ju	i͡u	yu	yu	û	ju, iu	ju, iu
Я я	ja	i͡a	ya	ya	â	ja, ia	ja, ia
Historical letters
И и		ī
Щ щ		shch
Ъ ъ		ʺ	ˮ, "
Ѣ ѣ		ě	ê
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2009-07-26.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ Parentheses ( ) denote older variants. ^ Diacritics may be omitted when back-transliteration is not required ^ "Romanization Systems Currently Approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN)". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 5 April 2017. ^ ^a ^b For е, ё, ю, я, the digraphs je, jo, ju, ja are used word-initially, and after a vowel, apostrophe (’), separating ь, or ў.